Chapter 249 You'd better be okay

Yang Chang followed suit and completed several inquiries in Yushe, and initially figured out the situation.

Ten days ago, the Jin army invaded and the defenders surrendered without a fight.

The day after Geng Shouzhong moved in, he forced the people in the city to go north to Wangyuetan, 40 miles away, to help the army build a camp.

The more Yang Chang asked, the more suspicious he became. He thought, there is already a ready-made Yushe City, but Geng Shouzhong is going to build a new camp. Isn't he just bored?
What kind of strange tactic is this?
Zhao Fujin followed silently until Yang Chang came under the eaves of the main street, and seemed to be planning to go back.

"Yang Lang, Yushe's defenses are weak. We should recapture it in one fell swoop. Shall we go back and report now?"

“I always feel like something is wrong.”

Yang Chang frowned in the dark. Although Zhao Fujin could not see his worried expression, he could hear the worry in his voice. He suggested, "Forty miles is not far. If Yang Lang is worried, why don't we go and take a look at the place in person?"

"That's what I'm planning to do."

"Then let's go. Let's get out of the city first and pay attention to the surroundings."

"Hmm wait!"

When Yang Chang looked around, he suddenly saw a flickering candlelight in the northwest. "If my guess is correct, that is where the county government is. I think Geng Shouzhong must be there."

"Yang Lang, you want it."

"Instead of going to Wangyue Beach to catch someone who speaks out, it's better to arrest the commander directly and interrogate him."

"Will he confess?"

After hearing Zhao Fujin's innocent questioning, Yang Chang couldn't help but rub her forehead and whispered jokingly: "These people are all greedy for life. They betrayed the Song Dynasty before, and now they can betray the Jin people. Princess, do you want to join us?"

"What do you say?"

"Haha, let's go."

Yang Chang smiled faintly, thinking to himself, how could Zhao Fujin be left alone in the city in the dark? He really shouldn't have asked this question, so he laughed it off.

After a while, they arrived at the yamen.

I saw that the gate of the county government office was closed, but I could see a faint light inside through the gap between the two doors.

Zhao Fujin looked around and guessed that when Yang Chang assassinated Wuliebu, he must have gone around the camp like a street block and it took him two hours to get close to the central army tent.

However, the military tent has no door, so entering is easier than entering a city.

Now is the time to wait?

She was wondering how to get in when Yang Chang suddenly pulled her to the right and said softly, "The gate is closed. We can only change the courtyard wall and then climb over it to get in."

"Will this work? Will we be discovered?"

"Absolutely not."

Yang Chang responded confidently. Although his vision was blocked by the courtyard wall, his five senses were as powerful as radar and he could clearly know the location of everyone in the courtyard.

When they reached the right corner of the courtyard wall, Yang pointed inside the courtyard and said, "Come over here. There's no one in this corner."

"How? With hooks and ropes?"

"It's just a low wall. There's no need to make such a fuss. Just hold on tight and don't make any noise."

"it is good"

As soon as Zhao Fujin finished speaking, she felt a man hugging her slender waist.

Then Yang Chang took two steps forward, stepped on the wall and pushed up, as if he was walking on flat ground, and jumped to the top in three steps.

He leaped down again, stepping on the soft grass, his steps light and silent.

Yang Chang has the agility provided by [Flying General], and climbing up the wall is as easy as parkour. In addition, [Centipede Step] is good at walking on bad roads, so he can carry someone with him quietly.

At that moment, he felt like a knight, climbing walls and robbing the rich to help the poor.

The Yushe County Government was very small, only one-third the size of Yang Chang’s Mansion.

Most of the guards were on duty at fixed sentry posts, and because the illuminated area was limited, Geng Shouzhong did not arrange patrols, giving Yang Chang the opportunity to eliminate them one by one.

After dealing with seven or eight guards along the way, Yang Chang came to the second hall where the lights were the brightest.

Yang Chang peeked through the crack in the door and saw a man in Khitan attire, with his hands behind his back, examining a hanging map. There was a pile of scrolls on the table next to him.

Geng Shouzhong?
This guy is dressed like this, it seems that he has completely sided with the alien race.

Keep loyalty? Keep loyalty to the new master?
Pretending to study the map, aren't the Yisheng Army cannon fodder for the Jin army? Are you qualified to command the battle?

With a creak, the door opened.

Geng Shouzhong didn't look back, but waved his hand and said calmly: "You'd better be fined, otherwise I will punish you severely."

"Heavy punishment? How heavy?"

Yang Chang looked at the back of the man's head and thought to himself that the voice seemed familiar. Could it be that I have seen Geng Shouzhong before?
When he heard the response, he couldn't help but tremble on the spot and turned around hurriedly to confirm.

At that moment, Yang Chang and he were both stunned.

"Gao Qingyi?"

"What exactly are you."

Gao Qingyi swallowed hard, he also felt that the voice was familiar, but when he turned around, he was attracted by the masks and thought it was Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu. However, Yang Chang called out the name accurately, which made Gao Qingyi overturn his conclusion.

Yang Chang had no intention of playing it mysterious, so he simply reached out and took off the mask, revealing his true face.

"Gao Tongshi, are you all right?"

"Yang Observation"

Gao Qingyi responded tremblingly. He remembered clearly the incident of a lion hitting someone. At this moment, he was too curious about how Yang Chang appeared so quietly. He just felt like half of his body was in hell.

Zhao Fujin was standing next to Yang Chang. Even though she still had the golden mask on her face, she could be seen to be a stunningly beautiful woman. The attire of this man and woman was exactly the same as that of Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu in the picture, which made Gao Qingyi feel uneasy.

"This is what you are"

"Yang Guo, Xiao Long Nu, have you heard of it?"

"You are the original"

Gao Qingyi answered hesitantly, his expression like the sky on the grassland in July, changing from cloudy to bright in an instant.

Wuliebuyu was assassinated, and it was rumored that he died at the hands of the martial artist Yang Guo. Yang Guo claimed that he was entrusted by someone at that time to prevent the Eastern Jin Army from making too many achievements. It was obvious that he was trying to throw blame on Nianhan.

Nianhan was originally the top military figure in the Jin Dynasty. However, because of his repeated attacks on Hedong, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack, he suffered heavy casualties and some people in the country questioned his ability, which put him in an awkward situation in the Jin Dynasty.

The Taiyue Mountain line was so tightly defended that Nianhan was like a dog biting a hedgehog, unable to bite it. He planned to bypass Yang Chang, this tough nut to crack, leaving half of his troops to guard Taiyuan and the other half to go out of Hebei with the Eastern Route Army.

Although the death of Olib had nothing to do with Nianhan, as the Chinese idiom goes, "mouth of the masses can melt gold", he had to go to the capital in person to express condolences and discuss new strategies with Wuqimai.

Gao Qingyi didn't know the real purpose of Nianhan's return to Beijing. He thought that if he could spread the news that Yang Chang was Yang Guo, the rumors in the rear would soon be self-defeating.

Just when this guy was struggling between conscience and desire, Yang Chang's words brought him back to reality.

"Aren't you an envoy? You didn't even say hello when you met an old friend after a long absence?"

"What do you want to do?" "I am Yang Guo, what do you think?"

"Then give me a quick death."

Even though Wulie was not in the main tent, Gao Qingyi was killed. He knew that he would die tonight. There was no point in resisting, so he simply closed his eyes and waited for death.

Yang Chang folded his arms, showed a playful smile, and said: "Since we are old friends, we naturally cannot just kill each other. I am a person who still cherishes the old friendship. If Envoy Gao can turn from evil to good, maybe we can become true friends."

"You want me to betray the Great Jin? Do you think I'm Geng Shouzhong?"

Gao Qingyi opened his eyes and glared, then raised his head and closed his eyes again: "Come on!"

"Well, in terms of integrity, you are better than Geng Shouzhong."

Yang Chang nodded in affirmation and continued to ask: "But you are originally a Khitan. Are you really willing to serve the Jin people? Don't you plan to recover your homeland?"

"Homeland?" Gao Qingyi smiled bitterly: "My last name is not Yelu, I am just an ordinary person"

"What's wrong with ordinary people? Is my last name Zhao?"

"Yang's observation is wrong. You should be called Taiwei. How dare I compare myself with you? Besides, the Liao Dynasty is a thing of the past. The emperor is now the King of the Seaside."

"Then how can you be sure that the Jin Kingdom will not become a thing of the past?"

Gao Qingyi looked sideways when he heard this, thinking to himself, you only took advantage of the geographical location and managed to win a few battles, the marshal's main force wasn't hurt at all, yet you dare to be so arrogant?
Even ants try to survive. Although Gao Qingyi was seeking death just now, he still held out a glimmer of hope for life.

I thought so in my heart, but I didn't dare to refute it.

Yang Chang observed his expression and smiled, and his next words were earth-shattering.

"I can kill Lou Shi head-on, I can kill his son and daughter by long-range shooting, I can sneak into the army and kill Wuliebu, and now I come to you again, who in the Jin Kingdom can stop me? Do you believe that I can kill from Taiyuan to Shangjing, behead the marshals and generals of the Jin army one by one, and even chop off Wuqimai's head."

"What do you want?"

Gao Qingyi swallowed hard. Although he didn't believe that Yang Chang could make it to Shangjing, the several generals currently in Liaozhou might be killed.

Yang Chang clenched his fists and said sternly, "The Jurchen population is less than one tenth of the Liao people. They became the masters of the Liao people through force, and now they are trying to destroy the Song Dynasty like an ant swallowing an elephant. Don't you think they will burst their stomachs? Now that the Song and Jin are in a stalemate, it is a good time for the Liao people to restore their country. If you are interested in restoring your country, or have a suitable candidate in mind, Yang is willing to lend a hand."

"I do not understand."

"You understand. Don't think that if you die, everything will be over. If I want to capture your family, it will be as easy as taking something out of a bag."

"This"

Gao Qingyi was so shocked that he was speechless.

At this moment, Yang Chang turned her head and whispered something to Zhao Fujin. Then she made hand gestures and chanted a spell. She raised her hand and a golden sword appeared. She shouted, "Quick!"

"This is."

Gao Qingyi watched the lightsaber penetrate his chest, and his internal organs suddenly felt as if they were burning. He immediately covered his chest and began to cough and groan like a tuberculosis patient.

"Ahem. Haha."

"Don't worry, you won't die yet, but if you don't obey..."

Yang Chang snorted coldly and walked out of the house. Then he brought in two bodyguards and said to Zhao Fujin, "Let's see your skills with Envoy Gao again."

"Ah."

Just as Gao Qingyi's discomfort was relieved, he saw Zhao Fujin cast a lightsaber spell and waved it at his two guards.

The lightsaber entered the body and a golden light flashed.

Where is the body?
What you experience personally and see with your own eyes cannot be false.

People's mentality will change with the environment. Gao Qingyi, who had not been afraid of death just now, was shaken at this time.

What's the point of being loyal to the Jin Dynasty if there's nothing left of me? How can I prove that I died in battle?
Someone dared to frame Marshal Nianhan. He was just a small interpreter, and might be accused of treason to the enemy by people with ulterior motives. Not only would his family not receive any compensation, but they might also be implicated.

If death is meaningless, then survival becomes the first option, and one has to cooperate even if it means pretending to do so.

"I have many talented people under my command. This kind of magic is nothing. So I was not bragging just now."

"Captain Yang, I am convinced. Please tell me what you need me to do."

"Haha, a man who knows the times is a hero."

Yang Chang raised his mouth slightly, and said meaningfully: "Let's talk about Liaozhou first. What are your plans? Of course, you don't have to tell me. I can go find someone else. Geng Shouzhong should be disloyal."

"I said, I said"

Gao Qingyi had finally managed to survive, so there was no way he would give it to Geng Shouzhong. He immediately told all about Wu Shi's trick like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube.

The center of Liaozhou was in Liaoshan (Zuoquan County). Geng Shouzhong's main force did not garrison in Yushe County, but re-camped forty miles north of the city, deliberately making way for Weisheng's reinforcements.

Li Ze had been persuaded to surrender by the surrendered general He Quan, and a heavy ambush was set up in Liaoshan City, waiting for Yang Chang to lead Weisheng's troops into the trap. At that time, the Jin army in Pingcheng in the north of Liaoshan and the Jin army in Heshun County in the northeast would attack at the same time.

As for Geng Shouzhong's troops in Yushe, they were the insurance used by Wushi to cut off Yang Chang's retreat. He vowed to wipe out Weisheng's reinforcements in Liaozhou.

Wushi and Loushi had been comrades-in-arms for many years. Because of the hatred for the murder of their friend Wanyan Jiemu and the influence of Yang Chang on Nianhan's prestige, they took advantage of Yang Chang's return to Shangjing to mourn and used Liaozhou to lay out a revenge plan.

After rehearsing it several times, Wu Shi felt that it was foolproof, but he still didn't understand Yang Chang's abilities deeply enough.

It might be possible to cause Yang Chang to lose some of his troops, but to want to keep him in Liaozhou completely is basically a pipe dream.

Yang Chang did what he said that night. He did not kill Gao Qingyi after receiving the intelligence, and then took Zhao Fujin out of the city.

Zhao Fujin was always calm and steady. After leaving the city, he couldn't help asking, "Yang Lang, are you really going to let Gao Qingyi go? If he informed Wu Shi at night, then..."

"Hehe." Yang Chang put his arm around Zhao Fujin's slender waist and responded with a smile: "Do you think he can do the magic of speed? Wu Shi is now in command of Yuci. Even if Gao Qingyi travels day and night and crosses mountains and ridges, it will take at least two days to get there. When the new deployment from Taiyuan comes down, I can at least defeat the rebels in Yushe."

"and then?"

"Then? Since we know their plan, if we can fight, we can take Liaozhou. If we can't fight, we can just quit while we are ahead. But if Gao Qingyi really obeys and cooperates, and persuades Yelu Yudu in Pingcheng not to send troops, I may be able to destroy Tuhesu and He Quan. After careful consideration, it is worth the risk. Let's go."

"Oh"

Just as Zhao Fujin was about to cast a spell, he suddenly turned around and asked, "Do you want to go to Wangyue Beach first and then return to Langling after verifying everything?"

"No need. It's already late at night. Bring back the information as soon as possible. We can gather more information tomorrow and make timely adjustments if there are any changes. The princess's magical movement skill is my confidence."

"Okay, show me the way."

"Turn right."

Yang Chang had always won every battle before, so Zhao Fujin gave him a few reminders and stopped him. He then started his Wind Fire Wheels and headed south, streaking across the night sky like a shooting star.

The upcoming battle of Liaozhou depends on what choice Gao Qingyi makes, which is destined to keep him awake all night.

Although he managed to get rid of the two 'plague gods' and successfully saved a life, when he inspected the county government office, all the guards on duty disappeared.

Now he is very hesitant. Should he cooperate with Yang Changxian to take down Yushe, or run back to Pingcheng in advance to seek asylum?

Last year, Emperor Qinzong, through the envoy Xiao Zhonggong, persuaded the military supervisory general Yelu Yudu to rebel against the Jin Dynasty. As a result, Xiao Zhonggong went back and told Wuliebu, which became the reason for the Jin Dynasty to attack the Song Dynasty for the second time.

Yang Chang is here again?

(End of this chapter)